Burglary victims have branded those who ransacked their Bedworth home and stole sentimental family videos as "thieving scumbags".

In what is believed to be just a 15-minute crime spree, the burglars turned the home of Faye Rotherman and Dave Higgot, in Goodyers End Lane, "upside down", opening practically every cupboard and drawer looking for things to steal.

Bizarrely, they left expensive Pandora jewellery, opting to take other things 46-year-old Faye say would have no worth to them – but huge sentimental value to both her and her husband.

“They completely ransacked the house, they had every drawer out looking for things,” she explained.

“They took a safe we had in our wardrobe, obviously thinking it had things of huge value in.

"But it had really precious videos, our wedding video and videos of Dave’s children at Christmas when they were younger.

"There were ten or 12 old cassette style, 8mm tapes and an 8mm camera to watch them on. They even took an Aldi shop for life bag to take the safe in.

"They also took a peal ring that belonged to my nan, I would really like to get that back too.

“They would need an angle grinder to get into the safe and I think that they would have just dumped the tapes when they found them, they would not even be worth pennies to them.”

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At one point she feared they had taken one of her late dog’s ashes: "That was one of the most upsetting things, but we eventually found the urn.

"It looks a bit like a jewellery box so they had opened it but thankfully the ashes were still in there, I was so relieved to have found it."

There were three family dogs in the house at the time: “None of them looked traumatised, I think they (the thieves) must have given them treats."

Faye said police believe that the thieves may have targeted the house for a specific reason: “They (the police) think that they may have been looking for the keys to my car, it is a sporty Audi, which was not on the drive at the time.

“We have had a car stolen from the drive about 14 months ago and had our shed broken into when a few in the street were broken into but the house has never been broken into before.

“We just want the videos back, and the ring, they are the sentimental things that we cannot replace.”

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Faye said: “They found a footprint, which is good, and we are waiting on another visit from the team, but in the meantime, we are asking for people to keep an eye out for the tapes dumped somewhere, some of them will say ‘Christmas’ on it and another ‘Wedding Day’, it would mean such a lot to get them back.”

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Police are keen to hear from any witnesses who were on the area on Tuesday afternoon or who saw anyone acting suspiciously.

Those with information should call Warwickshire Police on 101 or the Crimestoppers hotline, which is free to call from a landline and confidential, on 0800 555 111, quoting incident number 335 of January 23.